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  2. Slave codes - Wikipedia

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    The South Carolina slave-code served as the model for many other colonies in North America. [14] In 1755, the colony of Georgia adopted the South Carolina slave code. [15] Virginia's slave codes were made in parallel to those in Barbados, with individual laws starting in 1667 and a comprehensive slave-code passed in 1705. [16]

  3. Virginia Slave Codes of 1705 - Wikipedia

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    These codes effectively embedded the idea of slavery into law by the following devices: [4] These codes: established new property rights for slave owners, allowed for the legal, free trade of slaves with protections granted by the courts, established separate courts of trial, prohibited slaves from going armed without written permission, [5] [6 ...

  4. Black Codes (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The Black Codes, sometimes called the Black Laws, were laws which governed the conduct of African Americans (both free and freedmen).In 1832, James Kent wrote that "in most of the United States, there is a distinction in respect to political privileges, between free white persons and free colored persons of African blood; and in no part of the country do the latter, in point of fact ...

  5. Tignon law - Wikipedia

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    Miró added an item to a decree that he was already going to issue. [4] The June 2, 1786, [5] decree, formally titled the bando de buen gobierno or "proclamation of good government", [6] stated that women of color had to wear a scarf or handkerchief over their hair as a visible sign of belonging to the slave class, whether they were enslaved or not; [7] specifying that "the Negras Mulatas, y ...

  6. Slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In addition, these areas were devoted to agriculture longer than the industrializing northern parts of these states, and some farmers used slave labor. In Illinois, for example, while the trade in slaves was prohibited, it was legal to bring slaves from Kentucky into Illinois and use them there, as long as the slaves left Illinois one day per ...

  7. Barbados Slave Code - Wikipedia

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    [9] [10] The slave codes (not digitised) are available at The National Archives. [11] The laws of colonial Barbados to 1699, including those comprising the Slave Code, were collected in a book available online, The laws of Barbados collected in one volume by William Rawlin, of the Middle-Temple. In particular No. 329 details the 1688 Act (the ...

  8. 'Free the Nipple' movement: Women can now legally go ... - AOL

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    Women in six U.S. states are now effectively allowed to be topless in public, according to a new ruling by the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. 'Free the Nipple' movement: Women can now legally ...

  9. New York slave codes - Wikipedia

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    Banning slaves meeting away from the slave-owner's property in groups of three or more. Requiring a signed certificate for a slave to be on anyone other than their owner's property. Changing the punishment for small crimes committed by slaves so that the slave-owner pays the fine and the slave suffers corporal punishment.